Written October 13, 2014 By Blaise Sullivan (University of Vermont) What a day. What an absolutely crazy day. I’ll give a little context to where we’ve been: we arrived in Tortel seven days ago, a town of 500 people in…
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Written October 13, 2014 By Blaise Sullivan (University of Vermont) What a day. What an absolutely crazy day. I’ll give a little context to where we’ve been: we arrived in Tortel seven days ago, a town of 500 people in…
By Isabelle Lazarus (University of Vermont) I have arrived. It didn’t quite hit me when I stepped off of the plane in Santiago, nor when we landed in Balmaceda. It didn’t quite click when we wandered through the streets…
It’s hard to believe, but our sixth Patagonia program is almost underway! Our field instructors, Jessica and Elizabeth, have been busy in southern Chile, preparing for the arrival of 8 students on our Patagonia Conservation Program. Our program coordinator, Matt, is…
By Chloe Beck (Miami University, Ohio ’16) Calafate (Berberis sp.) is the common name for a species of shrub within the genus Berberis. Berberis shrubs have many different species covering a wide geographic range from the temperate regions in the…
By Bolton Howes (Macalester College ’15) Darwin’s Rhea (Rhea pennata), also known as the Lesser Rhea, is a large flightless bird that lives in the Patagonian steppe. Rheas belong to a group called ratites, which include other large flightless…